Rebekah Sadiq Media A level blog

 News:  Question layouts: Question 1: 10 marker link 2 unseen covers/homepages to theory. Question 2: 15 marker Usually unseen comaprison using 2 sources, one being your set product - they can be online sources. Question 3: 10 marker Context or industry question. Question 4: 10 marker Choice of theory. The Guardian:  A broadsheet which sometimes can be called quality tabloid.  Brand identity of The Guardian - white font, blue background. Typical broadsheet conventions seen on The Guardian covers: high ratio of text to photography. significant central image - which normally relates to hard news. Normally an elaborated language code - links to the idea of the target audience being educated. Formal mode of address. Hard news = politics, economy, health, education Normally has stories linked to culture, arts, film in the masthead, so it's not just hard news. 

  Monday 16th May 2022 Industries: Curran and Seaton: Media industries are capitalist and the owners control the media leading to a narrowing of opinions concluding that owners pursue profit. Hesmondhalgh: Production is owned and controlled by a few media conglomerates with companies rely on repetition to minimise risk and cover failure as risk is seen in loss of money.   Livingstone and Lunt: Citizens are social, seek public or social benefits from the media and require regulation to promote public interest and consumers who seek private benefits from the media require regulation to protect them. Audience: Bandura: The media can influence people directly influencing their values judgements and conduct can be altered directly. Gerbner: Long term exposure to media forms cultivates standardised roles and behaviours with 'mean world syndrome' causing a mistrusting attitude towards others.  Hall: media producers encode with a preferred meaning the dominant readings, nego...

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Monday 9th May 2022 News: exam format L/O: to understand the exam format for the news unit. Question 1 - Analyse 2 sources in terms of either media language or representation. The sources will be from a tabloid and the quality press with only 1 being a set product. May ask you to use a specific concept or theory. Will need to reference the sources in detail, using accurate terminology. 10 marks = 17 minutes Van Zoonen: women are objects, performance of gender roles, what we do rather than what we are (dependent on cultural/historical context) Patriarchy = male dominated society Question 2 - show your understanding of the news industry through analysis, as well as asking you to make judgements and draw conclusions. same sources as question 1. bullet points to show you want to include. need to show a developed line of reasoning, supporting your ideas with detailed reference to the source. 15 marks = 25 minutes. state expectations of tabloid and broadsheet new hybrid - celebrity culture s...

Friday 13th May 2022 Media Representation:  How the media portray events, issues, individuals and social groups. - which different groups, individuals and or events are presented or shown in each set product? - what positive or negative stereotypes are evident and why? - what messages and values are communicated about different groups of people, individuals and/or events?     - what conclusions can we make about these representations?     - Which groups are mis-represented or under-represented? - how are representations constructed as real? Representations - Dominant group: The dominant group hold the position of power within social institutions or owns the production of cultural products. Many theorists argue they have these characteristics: Middle-aged Male White Middle-class Capitalist Christian Heterosexual Able-bodied Western University educated Representations - Subordinate group: Anyone not fitting into the characteristics would be classed as being from a...

Shoot out Evaluation L/O: to reflect and evaluate skills development. Explain the task you were given and what you needed to consider. We were given a task to plan, film and edit a shoot out in a western style. Explain which conventions you attempted to use and whether they were successful. I used western sounding music and featured a dead body and the person being shot.  How does your media product convey a clear narrative? The narrative that I was intending through the shots were where the 2 people do not get along and the stand off and using 2 close ups of each of their faces was so that it wasn't obvious who was going to win as they were both expecting themselves to win. What did you do successfully and what would you need to improve/ consider if redoing the task? If I were to look at this again I would make sure more of the shots were in focus and certain parts of the filming process was better organised. Along with this I would improve my editing skills maybe making it more o...